Above all, the people were particularly shocked at the hermaphrodites, which were ordered to be immediately thrown into the sea, as had been lately done with a production of the same monstrous kind, in the consulate of Caius Claudius and Marcus Livius.
Notwithstanding they ordered the decemvirs to inspect the books in regard of that prodigy; and the decemvirs, from the books, directed the same religious ceremonies which had been performed on an occasion of the same kind.

They ordered, besides, a hymn to be sung through the city by thrice nine virgins, and an offering to be made to imperial Juno.

The consul, Caius Aurelius, took care that all these matters were performed according to the direction of the decemvirs.

The hymn was composed by Publius Licinius Tegula, as a similar one had been, in the memory of their fathers, by Livius.
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All religious scruples were fully removed by expiations; at Locri, too, the affair of the sacrilege had been thoroughly investigated by Quintus Minucius, and the money replaced in the treasury out of the effects of the guilty.